The Transitions from high school to college is one of the most difficult changes in a person’s life because it’s when they have to start handling your own life. Starting from birth, a person’s life is planned out for them. Once a person becomes an “adult”, they have to start making their own decisions and live with those consequences. They have to decide whether they want to spend time with their family, get a better education or get a little more money for later activities. In the end they end up…
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times and deal with it differently. Going to college as a first-time student is a hard transition, if you have never taken a course in high school that you had to give your full attention towards even with taking many other courses. College classes have much more expectations for their class than your typical high school class. My transition from high school to college had a really hard toll on me because I never thought it would give me this many problems from the very first day until the last day of…
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life that has marked my transition from childhood to adulthood is the Running Start Program at my local community college. Running Start is a program that allows high school students to simultaneously earn their associate degree and their high school diploma. This program takes place during junior and senior years of high school. I was honored to be one of only 15 students, from the class of 2017, selected from my entire school district, consisting of four large high schools. The Running Start program…
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can say that my life transitions did not play out as I once expected them to do when I was in my teens. As a teenager, my plans were to graduate high school, pursue a college degree, stabilize within a career, marriage, then finally start a family. That was my planned trajectory, and it was seen as appropriate in the social eye. These roles as a student, worker, wife, and finally a parent were age-graded transitions that were considered as a proper order of life transitions. As no one can predict…
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thoughts of many new and current college students. The fear factor derives from the student’s uncertainty of his or her new journey into higher education. Students become overwhelmed with the new college experience. Many individuals believe they do not fit in as college material. Which leads to many giving up on their courses too early before even trying to achieve an assignment. Young adults become fearful of the new transition from high school into college because they are reluctant in becoming…
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High School vs. College Education is a significant aspect in an individual’s life as it prepares them for a career and teaches them life lessons. New experiences are ongoing, and one gets ready for adulthood. During the five years of high school, you get to create close bonds with friends from elementary, teachers, and new people you meet. You construct an image for yourself that stays throughout the years. The next step after high school is college or university and these years are a defining…
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Throughout the semester of my first actual college class I have learned a lot. As I look back on the semester I have found many things that should have been done differently and things that should have been done in general.Being an Early College student is a lot of work as I have found out this semester. Although this was my second year being in the Early college program this was my first real actual college class. The previous classes that I have took at early college have been, ACA 111, PED 142, PED 120…
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several transitions in life before entering adulthood. Many of the changes are considered rites of passage. The transitions are symbolic and are influenced by family, peer groups and cultures. The focus of this paper is to discuss the adolescent’s rite of passage to college as one form of entering adulthood. There are three different stages that are significant in rites of passage and they are separation, initiation and reintegration (O’Hare, 2010). The adolescence that do not attend college would…
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I will tell you about Ebonee’s background and family, about her college education and about her career goals. Transition: I have introduced you to Ebonee, now I will tell you some information about her. First, I will discuss her background and family. II. Body: 1. Ebonee was born in Jacksonville, Florida to Howard and Shirley Anderson. Her dad an Army Veteran, minister of music, and a mortician and mother a Duval County Public School teacher. Her parents divorced at a very young age but remained…
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are living in the U.S. Only 7,000-13,000, of undocumented students continue their education and enroll in college (Closing the Gap, 2012). The optimism of these students decreases dramatically once they finish high school. The question is not why their optimism decreases but why the 7,000 to 13,000 students continue to remain optimistic. What fuels these undocumented students to enroll in college and continue with their education? Taking into consideration that undocumented students are aware of the…
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